Category: Events

Sat., April 27, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Chan Shun Concert Hall, Chan Centre for the Preforming Arts

Palestinian composer and musician Simon Shaheen has done more for bringing Arab music to the West than anyone else in recent memory. Known for his melodic ingenuity and his dazzling technique on both the violin and the oud, the central instrument in Arab music, Shaheen’s style is based in traditional Arabic sounds and includes elements of jazz, world and classical.

The Call: Songs of Liberation, features a new composition by Shaheen as well as ‘50s and ‘60s anthems by some of the most popular composers of the Arab world. These songs have found new resonance in the recent freedom movements in the Middle East and North Africa. Featuring singers, Naji Youssef and Mayssa Karaa, and guest dancer Cassandra Shore.

This concert is presented in partnership with the Museum of Anthropology’s Safar/Voyage: Contemporary Works by Arab, Iranian, and Turkish Artists, guest curated by Fereshteh Daftari. Safar/Voyage is Canada’s first major group exhibition of artists from the Middle Eastern region. It will run from April 20 to September 15, 2013.

PORT COQUITLAM’S ONLY SOCIAL JU$TICE FILM FESTIVAL

Among the films to be shown at the Festival is:
“ROADMAP TO APARTHEID” – A comparison is made between Apartheid South Africa and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. It is a
dire picture of the present, but offers hope in the peace that South Africa eventually found.
Speaker: Hanna Kawas, a Palestinian Christian.
When: 3:00 p.m. Saturday, April 13, 2013.
Where: TRINITY UNITED CHURCH
2211 Prairie Ave. (at Shaughnessy)
Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada

ADMISSION BY DONATION

Other films and schedule:
“The Voices of Transition” — food, chemicals Fri., Apr. 12, 7:15 p.m.
“Bully” — action plan for teachers, parents and community Sat., Apr. 13, 10:00 a.m.
“Consciousness” — the future for Riverview Sat., Apr. 13, 11:30 a.m.
LUNCH — $6.00 Sat., Apr. 13, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
“Haiti — Where did the Money Go?” Sat., Apr. 13, 1:30 p.m.

More Info: Lavina Shaw: lavinashaw@shaw.ca

Ana Min Hunak: I am from there…

Saturday, March 30
6:00 PM
Bonsor Banquet Hall, 6550 Bonsor Avenue, Burnaby, BC
(Near Metrotown) – Free Parking Available

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Join the Palestine Cultural Society and the organizing committee of the Vancouver Palestinian Shatat Conference for an Arab cultural evening commemorating Palestinian Land Day – experience Palestinian culture as we celebrate our connection to the land.

The cultural evening will be held in Bonsor Banquet Hall in Burnaby, BC.

Featuring:
*Palestinian and Arab music
*Delicious food
*Palestinian DABKEH performance
*Poetry and song
*Face-painting
*Art on display

Children are welcome – bring your family! This is an evening for community celebration, solidarity, and cultural resistance.

Tickets on sale in advance and at the door: $15 general admission, $10 for students, $45 group rate for a group of 4, $65 group rate for a group of 6. Children under 12 free.

To buy tickets online
For tickets, call:
Omar – 604-379-4050
Rima – 604-506-4765
Abdelaziz – 604-600-1561
Abdullah – 604-760-1058

**tickets will be limited: FIRST COME FIRST SERVE!**

Questions? Email palestinianconference@gmail.com!

Proceeds will support the Conference of the Palestinian Shatat in North America, taking place in Vancouver May 3-5, 2013!

Deepa Kumar on “Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire” Book
Public Forum on Coast Salish Territories [Vancouver BC Canada]

Saturday, Mar. 2, 7:00 – 9:00pm
Rm. 1700, SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver

Monday, Mar. 4, 12:30 – 2:00pm
UBC Student Union Building, Rm. 207 – 209

Monday, Mar. 4, 7:00 – 9:00pm
Conference Centre – Room A – Cedar4 Building 1205A
Kwantlen Polytechnic University – Surrey Campus 12666 72 Avenue

Tuesday, Mar. 5 – 12:30 – 2:00pm
Langara Community College, 100 W. 49Th, Rm. TBA

Deepa Kumar is an Associate Professor of Media Studies and Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University.

Dr. Kumar discusses how racism is as central to contemporary American imperialist policies now as it was when war was waged against North America’s original inhabitants. She explores historical encounters between Islam and the west, debunking the myth that these can be understood in terms of a “clash of civilizations”.

ORGANIZED BY Seriously Free Speech Committee – Vancouver.
FINANCIALLY SUPPORTED BY the Hari Sharma Foundation; the Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group; and the UBC Social Justice Committee.
ENDORSED BY Afgans United for Justice; Boycott Israel Apartheid Committee; Canada Palestine Association; Canada Palestine Support Network; Critical Race and Postcolonial Feminist Theory Research Network; Independent Jewish Voices; Kwantlen University Critical Criminology Working Group; South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy (SANSAD); UBC Colour Connected; UBC Solidarity with Palestinian Human Rights Committee, Westcoast Sheen; and the Siraat Collective.

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Contact: Seriously Free Speech Committee: Brian Campbell – 604-254-1803 and Kathy Copps – 604-436-4850.

February 27 at 10:00am until March 1 at 4:00pm
UBC Student Union Building
6138 Student Union Boulevard, Vancouver, BC
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Join SPHR-UBC in the SUB for Israeli Apartheid Week if you wish to learn more about the illegal occupation of Palestine, how Israel is an Apartheid state, and how you can get involved in dismantling this oppressive regime!

We will be tabling starting on Wednesday February 27 through to Friday March 1.
During our tabling sessions we will be distributing informative leaflets and welcome any questions on the facts of the conflict and/or about SPHR-UBC in general.

On Thursday February 28 we will be showing a film on the illegal occupation of Palestine.
On Friday we will be hosting Dr. As’ad Abu Khalil, famous for his “Angry Arab” blog and professor at California State University.

The Case Against “Israel”

Wood 2 – 2198 Health Sciences Mall, UBC, Vancouver, BC
Friday, March 1, 2013 at 6:00pm

SPHR-UBC would like to recognize that this event and all their activities take place on the unceded territory of the Musqueam people. SPHR-UBC unequivocally stands in solidarity with the Musqueam people and all their supporters in the Idle No More movement.

Israel was created unilaterally in 1948 as a result of the ethnic cleansing of over 750,000 Palestinians. This occupation maintained and supported by Western powers continues until today, and now more than 8 million Palestinians live outside Palestine. All those who stayed either live as second class citizens inside 1948 Palestine, or as an occupied people in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The purpose of this event is to challenge the creation of this Zionist entity, break the silence and inform students and all humans of conscious about the legal and moral implications of supporting this illegal Apartheid state.

Does the apartheid state have a right to exist? Did it ethnically cleanse 750,000 Palestinians and destroy over 500 villages or is this just a Palestinian myth? Is it the only “true” democracy in the Middle East or is it a settler-colonial Apartheid state? And why does this Zionist entity have to maintain its aggression and occupation of Palestine? Is this structure of systemic and systematic colonialism, oppression and occupation of stolen land viable or is it doomed to failure?

These, among many other questions, will be addressed by Dr. As’ad Abu Khalil, a Lebanese American Professor of Political Science at California State University and the man responsible for the Angry Arab News Agency blog. The event titled “The Case Against ‘Israel’” will shed light on very important questions facing Palestinians and their supporters.

Join the Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) at the University of British Columbia at an intriguing and thought-provoking discussion.

Time: Friday March 1st at 6:00 PM.
Location: Wood 2 – UBC, 2198 Health Sciences Mall, V6T1Z3

Please register for your free ticket. Join Facebook group
For more information send an email to sphr.ubc@gmail.com
Dr. As’ad Abu Khalil speech: “The Case Against ‘Israel’”